Keyword: Pharmaceuticals

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AstraZeneca Deepens Collaboration with Academia

31.10.2012 - British academic researchers have secured 7 million pounds ($11 million) of funding from the country's Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate a range of potential new drugs...

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US Foreign Bribery Penalties for Drugmakers May Lack Bite

29.10.2012 - Global drugmakers are paying tens of millions of dollars to settle U.S. allegations that they bribed their way across emerging markets, but harsher penalties may be needed to deter...

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GSK Raises Bet on AIDS Drug with New Shionogi Deal

29.10.2012 - GlaxoSmithKline has raised its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan's Shionogi, giving it a much bigger economic interest in the new product...

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Tax Gains Lift Merck & Co Q3 Profits

28.10.2012 - Merck & Co posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as one-time tax gains helped offset plunging sales of its former flagship product, Singulair, an asthma drug that began...

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Drugmaker Boehringer Settles Marketing Claim for $95 Million

26.10.2012 - Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $95 million to U.S. government agencies to settle civil allegations that it illegally marketed drugs for unapproved uses, the U.S...

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Celgene Profit Beats Forecasts as Revlimid Delivers

25.10.2012 - Celgene's quarterly earnings rose 14%, beating expectations, on strong sales of its Revlimid cancer treatment and lower costs, and the biotechnology company narrowly raised its...

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DSM Announces Biologics Development and Manufacturing Agreement for Australian Facility

25.10.2012 - DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, announced today that it has signed a biologics contract manufacturing agreement with...

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New CEO Has Work Cut Out as AstraZeneca Sales Fall

25.10.2012 - AstraZeneca's sales slumped 19% in the third quarter, underscoring the scale of the challenge confronting the drugmaker's new chief executive, Pascal Soriot. Faced with patent...